fvwm2 and startxwin

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Mar 2 01:50:00 GMT 2010


On 02/03/2010 01:22, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Start the x server using 'startx -- -rootless' and start fvwm2 from your
> .xinitrc file (typically by making 'exec fvwm2' the last line. NB this
> does not end with an '&')
>
> If you aren't interested in starting other programs from your .xinintrc,
> you can just do 'startx fvwm2 -- -rootless' for the all in one solution :-)

Oops.  I mean 'startx /usr/bin/fvwm2 -- -rootless'

(as man xinit says, the client supplied to startx or xinit must begin with / 
or ., otherwise it's treated as client arguments to the default xterm)

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